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Daniel Akst, America: Land of Loners, The Wilson Quarterly
Mark Anspach, Global Markets, Anonymous Victims [interview]
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JOAN BAKEWELL, On Not Having A Career, the Idler
Bea Ballard, My dad, the perfect mum, The Sunday Times
BBC, Why Do People Vote Against Their Own Interests? [also on BBC radio: Turkeys Voting for Christmas]
The Believer, Luc Sante, Interview, 2004
Thomas Bender, “New York as a Center of Difference‘” Dissent, Fall 1987
J.M. BERNSTEIN, Hegel on Wall Street
Phillip Blond, Rise of the Red Tories,
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Civilizing Security in New York: A View from Europe
Lera Boroditsky, HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? [6.12.09] by on Edge.org.
Michael Brenner, Celebrities as Heroes
Rebecca Brock, You Can’t Even Remember What I’m Trying to Forget, The Threepenny Review, Winter 2005
David Brooks, Social Animal, The New Yorker
David Brooks, A World Cup Mentality, New York Times
C
Visaan Chakrabarti, A Country of Cities, Urban Omnibus
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Gilles Deleuze, A Very Special Delirium
Richard of Devizes, A Critique of English Towns in the 12th Century
Rachel Donadio, Persistent Unemployment, Without Lingering Pain, The New York Times
Barbara Ehrenreich, How Positive Thinking Wrecked the Economy, 2008
E
Terry Eagleton, Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching, London Review of Books
The Economist, Tintin: A very European Hero
David Edelstein, “Folie a Deux: A heist picture about one of the greatest stunts in New York history”
Michael Erard, Notes on Being Born on Soil, Design Observer
F
Bill Flanagan, Bob Dylan, interview with Bill Flanagan, The Telegraph
Roxy Freeman, My Gypsy Childhood
Harold Fromm, Vegans and the Quest for Purity, The Chronicle of Higher Education
G
Janice Galloway, Anything but ordinary, Eurozine.com
Henry A. Giroux, Public spaces, private lives: beyond the culture of cynicism
Todd Gitlin, How Our Crowd Got Lonely
Jean Luc Godard, Bergmanorama
Rebecca Goldstein,He Turned Around and She Was Gone, October 11, 1987, The New York Times
David Graeber, To Have Is to Owe, Canopy
Stephen Greenblatt, The Answer Man, The New Yorker
H
Johan Hari,Was J.G. Ballard a prophet of doom – or the future? The Independent
Scott Horton, Coffee and Civilization, Harpers Magazine, 2007
I
Pico Iyer, Living in the Transit Lounge
J
Alan Jacobs, In the Garden
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Boston, 1890
Mabiala Justin, Robert Kenzo, Dialectic of sedimentation and innovation: Paul Ricœur on creativity
K
Michael Kinsley, ‘The Real Joke in Minnesota’ , Washington Post
Hanif Kureishi, Something Given: Reflections on Writing
L
Anne Lamott, Why I Hate Mother’s Day
Lewis Lapham, City Light, Lapham’s Quarterly
Lewis H. Lapham, The God in the Machine
Lori Leibovich, “Christ was quite anti-family”, Stephanie Coontz on the Way We Weren’t — And Are, Salon.com
Chris Lenton, Third Culture Club, Janera
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Luis Marin, Utopic Degeneration: Disneyland
Wilfred M. McClay, The Soul of a Nation
H. L. Mencken, The Scene Almost Staggers, 1920, San Francisco
George Monbiot, How these gibbering numbskulls came to dominate Washington, Guardian
B. R. Myers, The Moral Crusade Against Foodies
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George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
Kathryin St. Ours, Pasolini’s tecnica sacrale in Accatone, Goucher College
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Convivial, It’s Nelly’s World
S. Brent Plate, Car Culture Audio: The purposeless driven life of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, Killing the Buddha
Michael Pollan, No Bar Code, Mother Jones
Rolf Potts and Kristin Van Tassel, Sons of The Beach, worldhum.com
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Sanford Quinter and Daniela Fabricius, Houston TM in Mutations, Actar press
R
Jonathan Raban, Just Two Clicks, London Review of Books
Amit Rai, Deleuze and Foucault on Marketing as Control
Jeremy Rifkin, Empathic Civilization: Why Have We Become so Uncivil?
Jeremy Rifkin, Will We Heed President Obama’s Call for a More Empathetic Society?
Richard Rodriguez, Our Daily Bread: The sustaining power of the ordinary
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Luc Sante, French Without Tears
Matt Zoller Seitz, The Hangover 2′s” Mel Gibson hypocrisy, Salon.com
Richard Sennett, The Open City
Chris Smith, America Is a Joke, New York Magazine
Oswald Spengler, The Soul of the City, 1928
Kathryin St. Ours, Pasolini’s tecnica sacrale in Accatone, Goucher College
Mladen Stilinovic, The Praise of Laziness
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Jeffrey Toobin, The Mitigator, New Yorker
Roberto Unger, Overcoming Defeatism in the Making of Public Space
Roberto Unger, Tanner Lecture: The Religion of the Future
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Mandy van Deven, Why we can never escape our siblings, Salon
Eyal Weizman, Islands: The Geography of Extraterritoriality, Roundtable
Curtis White, Hot Air Gods, Harper’s Magazine
Rupert Wilkinson, ‘The Lonely Crowd,’ at 60, Is Still Timely, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Robert Wringham, In Praise of Bohemia, The School of Life
Stephanie Zacharek, The Little Tramp, Salon Entertainment
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